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  • image SM Adam volume 6/173

Reference number

SM Adam volume 6/173

Purpose

[16] Preliminary design for a tripod for the eating room, c1774, possibly executed

Aspect

Elevation of a candelabrum, with a base formed with sabre legs and paw feet, capitals in the form of masks, and a frieze of guilloche. The base supports a tripod with tapered, fluted, term legs, which flank a turned support bearing an urn. The urn is ornamented with gadrooning, guilloche, and a central figurative panel. The top of the urn is flared and ornamented with acanthus leaf

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

Stand for Candles in / Sir W W. W.s (crossed through, pencil) / Eating Room – (crossed through, pencil) / 4 feet high (pencil)

Signed and dated

  • c1774
    c1774

Medium and dimensions

Pen on laid paper (154 x 207)

Hand

Probably
Robert Adam

Literature

For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

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